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Zal ik je morgen weer zien? Essay voor M Motley
Voor Mister Motley bezocht ik de tentoonstelling Sun don’t rush to be red, Son don’t rush to be read in TENT, raakte ontroerd en zelfs een beetje verliefd. Lees het essay via onderstaande link. Curator: Rawad Baaklini15 november 2025 – 15 februari 2026Coolhaven 32 Rotterdam ‘Lommer, zweem, glimp. Zie ik een arm, een nek, oren…
Lezing De Vishal Haarlem – expositie KLEUR!
Op dinsdag 3 maart 2026 om 20.00 uur geef ik een lezing over kleur in De Vishal in Haarlem. Ik ben nog aan het broeden op een mooie invalshoek, daarover houd ik je op de hoogte. Maar noteer het vast in je agenda, je bent van harte welkom! De Vishal | KLEUR! De expositie KLEUR!…
Workshop about where colours end and where they begin
Workshop at KHB Studio Berlin Last year, at the invitation of KHB Studio in Berlin, I gave a workshop on colour (in German). With a very inspiring and engaging group, we explored new ways to look at colour, to name them differently, to see where colours end and where they begin. Homer and Robin Wall…
An intimate correspondence between the colors Pink and Green
Between Pink and Green For the second part of her artist’s book series Apophenia, Julie Wolfe invited me to write about colour. I know her from my time at Knust, so I am especially familiar with her riso prints. From the beginning, I was drawn to her use of green and pink, and to the…
The flow of Grey – Essay on Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns’ Where are you – Sirocco Journal
“It is the shades of grey that give these art works a lightness. Hopeful is the meaning Ariëns adds to the power of the colour grey.” Barbara Collé Essay for Sirocco Journal Nº3, 2025On Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns’ Where are you “The colour grey has many interpretations in art history, but one meaning that keeps recurring is…
The Ouroboros Orbit – 5-7 september presentation at Studio Trouble, Berlin
Throughout August, I will be collaborating with Uta Neumann on our Ouroboros Project. We will conclude this working period with a presentation at Studio Trouble in Berlin. You are cordially invited, please join! Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September 2025 (Opening times will follow soon)Studio TroubleAudre-Lorde-Straße/Manteuffel Straße – Kreuzberg Berlin Ouroboros Orbit – along the…
Glinsteringen die je bij de kladden grijpen – Essay voor Kunstenlab
Op uitnodiging van Kunstenlab sprak ik op zondag 11 mei 2025 met Roos van Haaften en Pelle Schilling tijdens een kusntenaarsgesprek. We spraken over de kleur rood, over structurele, iriserende kleuren en over de poëzie van folie. Vervolgens schreef ik een reflectie op het werk van Pelle Schilling dat op dat moment bij Kunstenlab te…
Publication in ‘A Magazine Curated by’
Her Own Universe The magazine A Magazine Curated by has been in print for 25 years. They made an anniversary edition in which they asked all curators for a new contribution. Fashion designer Olivier Theyskens is one of those curators and together with visual artist Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns they made a beautiful story and an…
Relationships with Colour – podcast
Mater Podcast invited Lu and me to have a conversation about colour. We had a really nice chat. Relationships with Colour ‘Lucila Kenny and Barbara Collé have bonded over colour and perception through many conversations and collaborations, so it was very moving to be able to be a fly on the wall for one of…
Lecture – Blau etc. at KHB Studios, Berlin
Invitation / Einladung / Uitnodiging Friday 11 April 2025, 19.00 – 21.30 KHB Studios, Nazarethkirchstraße 42, 13347 Berlin Colour Order/Disorder KHB Studios invited me to their programme about: Order/Disorder Experiments (Experimente mit (Un-)Ordnung). This evening I would very much like to talk with you about order and disorder in colour schemes. How many circles, triangles,…
Join us: Writing during the Blue Hour in Berlin
On Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 of April between 20h00 and 21h00 we will be writing during the Blue Hour in Berlin. One evening we will be in a park looking up at the sky through the branches of the trees, and the other evening we will be standing in the middle of a symmetrical…
A month in the Sahara – Tissardmine artist residency
… We were in a place where the sky was an orange and where we could touch the milky way simply by stretching out our arms. January 2025 artist residency Tissardmine, Rissani, Morocco. I was lucky enough to spend a whole month in a dazzling part of the Sahara. In south-eastern Morocco, seven kilometres from…
Presentation of sketches; the dance of the rainbow serpent and the ouroboros
The month in Tissardmine was full of dreams. Daydreams were everywhere in the vast landscape, during walks, on dune ridges illuminated by the rising or setting sun, the golden hour, the moonlight, the starry sky. Dreamtime I read about the perception of sounds in dreams in an essay on Deep Listening by Ione. And one…
Bilboard Print, Part of exhibition at Artists Unlimited
From 27 September till 13 October, a work by Uta Neumann and me will be on display in Bielefeld. The work is part of Uta Neumann’s exhibition ‘When the Mountains Sway, I Hum’ at the gallery Artists Unlimited in Bielefeld. Detail from the Ouroboros series Untitled (Billboard print), 2024, billboard, 2.52m x 3.85m,Part of exhibition…
Earth’s Shadow Artistic Research
There is something very illogical about looking at the earth’s shadow, because you are ‘actually’ looking in the wrong direction. Because to perceive the earth’s shadow, you have to turn your back on the miracle of the setting sun. The shadow is a less intense, grotesque, overwhelming visual spectacle, until you do something that makes…
Writing residency Summer 2024
A whole month, really a whole month! That’s what I thought in advance as I looked forward to the artist residency at Libken in Germany’s Uckermark. Writing in the kitchen, in bed, in the library, in the archive of the library where a special corner has been created for people who really want to concentrate…
De Tijd van Kleur – online lessenserie
In opdracht van ArtEZ Studium Generale en Mister Motley maakte ik een driedelige online lessenserie over kleur. Je kunt deze via onderstaande link gratis volgen. Neem een kijkje, zitten mooie beelden en leuke vragen bij! Tussen waarnemen en denken De online lessenserie gaat over de relatie tussen tijd en kleur. De lessen zijn gebaseerd op…
Videoregistratie: De tijd van kleur
Bekijk hier de videoregistratie van De tijd van kleur. Online gesprek De tijd van kleurOp 17 april 2024 organiseerden ArtEZ Studium Generale en Mister Motley een online gesprek met Roos van Haaften (beeldend kunstenaar, ArtEZ alumna en docent DBKV ArtEZ Arnhem) en Barbara Collé (beeldend kunstenaar en filosoof). We gingen in gesprek met Maurits de…
Book Presentation at Zabriskie Berlin
with: Lucila Kenny and Barbara Collé Friday 17 May 7pmZabriskie, Reichenberger Str. 150, BerlinBook presentation of flower, fruit, leaf, husk and root “They are in a cocoon. A cocoon filled with the blue that is their family. In the air hangs the moment of a story, a big story: the first time Lu made blue…
De tijd van kleur, online gesprek en lezing
Woensdag 17 April 2024 Mister Motley en ArtEZ Studium Generale nodigen je van harte uit voor het online lunchevent De tijd van kleur. Roos van Haaften en Barbara Collé gaan met Maurits de Bruijn in gesprek over de tijd van kleur. Woensdag 17 April 202412.00 – 13.00 uurOnline via Zoom Meld je via deze link…
Book Launch: flower, fruit, leaf, husk and root
San Serriffe, Thursday 4th April 20.00 Introduction and conversation with Alex Walker, Lucila Kenny and Barbara ColléSan Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30 Amsterdam It is about a woman who, well into her eighties, still jumped on her bike with a young tree to plant it in good, fertile soil and about another woman who got her…